Susan Floyd

With the December 2001 release of her fourth book, A
Cowboy for Clementine, Susan Floyd has found herself
very busy holding down both a full-time writing career and
a full-time teaching career. "Lots of people ask if now
that I'm published, I'm going to give up the
teaching," she says. However, she can't even think
about trading in one dream in for another because both
jobs fulfill her in different ways.

"Teaching is a very external job. You're interacting
with students, caring about them, pushing them to achieve
higher standards. On the other hand, writing is an
incredibly internal job and I spend most of the time
pushing myself to achieve higher standards!" Susan
Floyd observes. "I just want to tell stories that are
well-written, where the reader feels like she can actually
touch my characters because they seem so real."

Her fifth book, titled My Three Girls, is scheduled
to be released in November 2002. Of course, there are
always brand new stories in the works or new stories about
familiar characters. Los Banos, California still is her
setting of choice for her romances.

On the home front, she and her husband, Michael, have
added a new family member, Dexter Doggie, who was abused
by his previous owners. Dexter has done much to breathe
new life into Mr. Riley, who has decided to make his new
bed in Susan's closet, just to get some relief from his
new baby brother.